Wedding Day Part 2 - Church to Reception

After the messy pictorial at church, it's time for the reception! As we were waiting inside the bridal car, we had small talks about what happened and why they were late. She said they were late because it took them some time to take a hold of the bridal car, maybe it was parked somewhere far away from the lobby or something. hehe! Anyways, so much for that. As we arrived at the reception which is at the Grand Convention Center of Cebu, we were waiting for the entourage to walk in first for the grand entrance. There was a music, I just couldn't remember what was it, but I know it was a dance music or something, and because of that, we need to dance while we walking for the entrance! I was like "really? do we really have to do this?" but my wife started dancing while walking, and because of that, I had no choice but to dance as well. It was so not like what I was thinking, I couldn't dance. I don't dance! But for our wedding, I did it. I wonder what I look like dancing, well I really don't know how to describe it. But it was CRAZY! Crazy because I really don't know how to dance. lol

After the entrance, it was time for the first dance. So I held her hand and we started slow dancing. It was fun, and I never did that before. It was like the first and the last dance for me. hehe! I forgot what music was playing for our first dance, all I remember was the first music played on our Prosperity dance which I'll talk about it later on. As we finished dancing it was supposed to be the time to eat. But because of the early time, it was still like 10:30am something and the food is not yet ready. So we started picture taking with people on each table. But it was not enough, so the emcee started some games, like asking questions about us and everything, but sad to say nobody participated. I don't know why but people was not interested back then. Maybe they were hungry at that time and too tired to participate. Then finally the soup was served. After few minutes, they started serving other foods one by one. And to my dismay it was really slow. I never imagined it would turn out that way, I don't know why but grand con was not the best choice, their food is good, but the serving takes a large amount of time which is very disappointing.



After an hour, another game started, it was supposed to be the throwing of bouquet but they improvised it. The mechanic is, the one who couldn't get a flower will be the one who will be chosen. There were 8 girls who participated, and so they prepared for 7 flowers to be thrown. But before it can be thrown by the one who held it, the girls ran and started to grab one flower each, it was fun and everyone laughed about it, and so one was left without a flower. Next up, it's the boy's time, the mechanic is the same, but instead of flowers, they used candies. After the candies was thrown, everyone grabbed one except for one, he purposely didn't try to get one, he just stood there and watched the other guys crawling on the floor just to get a candy. Then they were called to stand before us, it's time for the garter exchange thing. After it the people requested for a kiss. Of course my wife and I kissed. But the people wanted more, but not from us, but the two who won the game. hahaha! Everyone laughed maybe because it's awkward kissing someone you don't know?

Moments passed, and it's time for the Prosperity dance! As we stepped on the dance floor, the music started and the first song was Lifehouse's You and Me. I don't know how it was, but for me it was perfect. We started dancing then one by one people started to pin money on my suit or on her gown, it's a traditional thing here in the Philippines and I don't know about it in some other countries. And it was fun! After the dance, the cameraman told us it's time to open two gifts and pick 1 big gift and 1 small gift. So we picked the biggest gift and one small gift and opened it. The big gift is a baby stroller which is really what we need, and the small one is a glass set which we are currently using now. After everything is finished it's time to go home, finally! Next up, Reception back to hotel and home which was really unusual.